Google-play-music-desktop-player-unofficial-: Stopped Loading on Ubuntu 17.10

[stevechilds]

Hi, in the last few days the app has stopped loading in Ubuntu 17.10, it just changes the cursor to a spinner for a few seconds and then nothing. Rebooting had no effect, same with removing and installing the latst version on the website, the app simply doesn't load.

I've had it installed for a few months before that and its worked fine.

Any suggestions?

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[jostrander]

Firewall issue maybe? Are you blocking traffic outbound?

[stevechilds]

Nope and its worked fine before. Google Music also works fine if run from Chrome. It literally stopped working over night.

[johndeaton]

Try installing libgconf-2-4. I was having the same issue and saw this suggested in another thread. It worked for me.

[stevechilds]

@johndeaton - You're a star, that worked!

[johndeaton]

Great! I'm glad it worked for you too.

[mejiaro]

This worked for me too on Ubuntu 18.04.

[LillyWho]

The deb package should mark libgconf-2-4 as dependency, in my opinion. I've run into the issue just now and this could be avoided by that dependency marker.

[speedstyle]

Out of the frying-pan into the fire...

[MichalKrasno]

I'm getting the same Seg Fault error as speedstyle after installing libgconf-2-4 on Ubuntu 19.04

[mjohnson8165]

I can also confirm @speedstyle, @MichalKrasno on 19.04.
I already had _libgconf-2-4_ installed and got:

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Then i removed the lib just for kicks and got:

google-play-music-desktop-player: error while loading shared libraries: libgconf-2.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[GregoryConrad]

Same issue here on Ubuntu 19.04. The application worked just fine on Ubuntu 18.04, but after upgrading, I get that same Segmentation Fault.

[GregoryConrad]

@mjohnson8165 @MichalKrasno @speedstyle Looks like #3553 is related.

[speedstyle]

OK, #3117 can be resolved by installing libgconf-2.4 and the segfault is separate and documented in #3553.